Darren Almond’s “Fullmoon”

The monograph “Fullmoon_,” _by the English artist Darren Almond, is a twenty-first-century response to his country’s long tradition of pastoral painting. While travelling in the U.K. as well as to natural wonders around the globe, Almond used an extended exposure—about a quarter of an hour long—to capture landscapes against a cloudless, moonlit sky. In the book’s introduction, the curator Sheena Wagstaff, who, in 2001, curated an exhibit of Almond’s work at the Tate, writes that Almond’s “strangely tinted world” is part of his quest, like those of his predecessors, “to discover an alternative vision of the landscape.”